Comments on: "Clones and drones" versus Sturm und Drang politics

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:53:00 +0000

Gummo Trotsky @75, and as devoid of charisma as GWB and his sycophant JWH aka The Lying Rodent.

By: keIthY

keIthY — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:56:40 +0000

Patricia WA @ 78, Joyce is a pretender and it is simply whack to promote him to where he is! How are they going to win Government with NO TRUMP CARD?!!?

By: Patricia WA

Patricia WA — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:55:33 +0000

Thanks Steve for responding, albeit still enigmatically, and suggesting I had made a good guess. I turned my mind to this intriguing idea this morning, rather than muddle my way through the maze of depressing Copenhagen developments.

My first thought was that I must apologise to transvestites. After all cross- dressing is a perfectly legitimate activity which demonstrates a willingness to literally walk in another’s shoes, which cannot be said of Senator Joyce, even metaphorically.

Snowdropping, however, does involve a level of criminality. The stealing of another’s clothes in the dead of night is illegal and reprehensible. The 19thC Tory Disraeli’s metaphor of stealing the Liberals’ clothes is now a time honoured strategy for pinching another party’s policies. That could in no way be described as a dirty secret, nor does it come close to who Joyce once “was” or really “is” which you suggest the ALP will soon reveal to his detriment.

I give up. I agree with David Irving(nr). Barnaby is thick as two bricks. Too thick to have lived a double life. Though he is an accountant. Steve, did you come across him in Sydney and your “inner city suit” life? When acccountants uncharacteristically muck up they do it big time, don’t they?

By: David Irving (no relation)

David Irving (no relation) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:08:20 +0000

In any case, Barnaby’s still as thick as pigshit.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:53 +0000

Patricia, lol. Well having worked as inner city suit myself in another life…in my experience many colleagues could fit into all of the above. rofl. Good guess.

By: Patricia WA

Patricia WA — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:36:39 +0000

Come on, Steve, do tell! Don’t be such a tease! I’ve always felt there was something shifty about Joyce. Body language, no eye contact and all that. But a deep dark secret? Surely he wouldn’t risk public life if it was something really juicy, would he? Come on! Give us a little hint. Like in charades.

Is he a…….transvestite?

Perhaps a…..snowdropper?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:32:52 +0000

David Irving- Joyce actually isn’t a Queenslander. Adopted New South Welshman. His background is interesting. He obviously planned his route from Riverview Sydney Schoolboy who went on to work in finance in the middle of the Sydney CBD to ‘St George tinpot Accountant’ to Nationals Senator vey well. Because many people forget who he actually was. Who he ‘was’ is his weakness. Word has it that the Rudd Government will open it up soon. Would be very wise to as it shows Joyce is not all that he wishes to portray.

By: Tim Macknay

Tim Macknay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:55:53 +0000

DI(NR) @ 69:

What do they put in the water in Queensland? (No offence to our hosts.)

Well they don’t put fluoride in it, at any rate.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:11:50 +0000

What everyone’s missing here is that Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce are men of historic destiny, cast from the same mould as George W Bush. Just as it was Dubya’s historically inevitable role to advance the cause of the global working class by reshaping the geopolitical order, Abbott and Joyce are destined to completely blow away the anti-worker conspiracy that is Copenhagen.

Just ask the true leftists!

By: Hal9000

Hal9000 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:28:17 +0000

Mark – just another off-topic note on Trevor Perrett. You might recall he was the first of the ‘flooziegate’ philandering ministers whose antics did much to bring down the Borbidge government. His name emerged in connection with investigations following the bizarre discovery of the decomposed body of a woman who had apparently died in her own home and lain unnoticed for some months. Prior to her demise, the woman had been receiving frequent male visitors at all hours. Perrett had been, er, associated with the late lady in question. His subsequent clearing of suspicion regarding the death was too late to salvage his political career.